Clint shares a lesson about the Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Clarence Thomas.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, September 6, 2022
Clint shares a lesson about the life, career, and legacy of Shirley Chisholm.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, July 27, 2022
Clint shares a lesson about the complicated history of racial tension in South Central Los Angeles.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, August 27, 2022
Clint shares a lesson about the Civil Rights activist and Icon, Reverend Jesse Jackson.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, August 9, 2022
Clint shares a lesson about the history of the War on Drugs, what it was trying to accomplish, and how it contributed to the US as a carceral state, and the nation that imprisons more of its population than any country in the world.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, July 13 , 2022
Clint shares a lesson about Marsha P. Johnson and the Stonewall rebellion.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, June 29 , 2022
Clint shares a lesson about how the Black Arts Movement served as a way for women to empower Black People through creative output.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, June 14 , 2022
I spent last week mourning those murdered in Buffalo. I will spend this week mourning children murdered at school.
By Clint Smith
The Atlantic, May 25, 2022
Clint shares a lesson about Malcolm X’s origins, his work with the Nation of Islam, his break from that organization, and his eventual assassination.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, May 10, 2022
Clint shares a lesson about the Little Rock Nine, the Greensboro Four, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and the Freedom Riders.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, April 23, 2022
The Sidney Hillman Foundation announces today the winners of the 72nd annual Hillman Prizes for journalism and recognized Clint Smith for his book about visiting historical sites to investigate how slavery and the Civil War are memorialized and taught.
By Sidney Hillman Foundation
Sidney Hillman Foundation, April 19, 2022
Clint shares a lesson about perhaps the best-known leader in the Civil Rights Era, Martin Luther King, Jr.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, April 9, 2022
Anitra D. Brown describes Clint Smith’s journey home to the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University where he discusses his book, How the Word Is Passed.
By Anitra D. Brown
The New Orleans Tribune, March 31, 2022
Clint shares a lesson about how boycott leaders like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr were household names and the Civil Rights movements was on the national stage.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, March 25, 2022
How the Word Is Passed won the 2022 Stowe Prize.
By Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Harriet Beacher Stowe Center, March, 2022
How the Word Is Passed won the National Book Critics Circle prize for nonfiction.
By Alexandra Alter
New York Times, March 17, 2022
Clint shares a lesson about the story of Emmett Till and the jarring images of his funeral shocked the nation and were a vital catalyst in turning the civil rights movement into a nationwide phenomenon.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, March 12, 2022
Clint shares a lesson about how the NAACP's legal defense fund (led by Thurgood Marshall at the time of the Brown Decision) pursued a strategy of bringing cases to court that would expand the civil rights of Black Americans.
By Clint Smith
Crash Course, February 11, 2022
How the Word Is Passed is named as one of the 2022 PEN America | John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Literary Awards Finalists.
By PEN America
PEN America, February 7, 2022